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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2355044" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Aaaand I just realised this is a very old post I'm responding to. Still.. Might as well leave it up, took a while to write, haha.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>About PCOS versus the other version that causes cysts too... Have you ever noticed anything off about your periods before they just came to a sudden halt? I got my first period very early (Think I was 10 or something), and then had it every 2 weeks. I practically bled out every time, so while I was put on iron tablets first, I ended up being the youngest kid in my school on birth control, just so I wouldn't be so weak and leaking right through the pads all the time. PCOS seems to always have been with me. Legs hairier than my husband's (I'm a veritable gorilla), indeed, hairs where I don't want them on my chin and upper lip, I'm quite infertile which -thank god- agrees with me, and whatnot. I find it a bit odd that, if that is the case, you never noticed anything before they stopped, and between my Hashi's, diabetes and PCOS I was quite overweight, so... Maybe it really isn't PCOS, but the other thing, which then wouldn't per se be related to insulin resistance. Also, your doc should have ordered an EXTENDED OGTT, as a short one is basically a waste of time, which very few docs seem to know. Can you fund a Libre (CGM) for a week, do a OGTT at home and show them the results? Just an idea. You saying you're hypo doesn't make much of an impression as you're "probably just a hysterical female". Slapping them over the head with some carefully recorded numbers that prove you 100% right might have more of an effect. </p><p></p><p>Stick with the low carbing for the RH. I didn't find out the way I'd been feeling on occasion had been RH until that was already in my rearview mirror. If you keep spiking insulin, as RH is an overshoot, you might in time become insensitive to your own insulin. Looking back, I think that's what happened to me. Between that and PCOS, T2 running in the family and whatnot, I didn't have a prayer when no-one bothered to tell me I was prediabetic. (Then at least I would've known what to research and would have found out about low carb instead of low fat, and would've avoided the whole T2 thing!).</p><p></p><p>All in all.... Listen to your gut. Not a doc who basically laughs at you. It's no laughing matter, it's your body and you're kind of stuck having to live in it. They don't have that luxury.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p><p>Jo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2355044, member: 401801"] Aaaand I just realised this is a very old post I'm responding to. Still.. Might as well leave it up, took a while to write, haha. About PCOS versus the other version that causes cysts too... Have you ever noticed anything off about your periods before they just came to a sudden halt? I got my first period very early (Think I was 10 or something), and then had it every 2 weeks. I practically bled out every time, so while I was put on iron tablets first, I ended up being the youngest kid in my school on birth control, just so I wouldn't be so weak and leaking right through the pads all the time. PCOS seems to always have been with me. Legs hairier than my husband's (I'm a veritable gorilla), indeed, hairs where I don't want them on my chin and upper lip, I'm quite infertile which -thank god- agrees with me, and whatnot. I find it a bit odd that, if that is the case, you never noticed anything before they stopped, and between my Hashi's, diabetes and PCOS I was quite overweight, so... Maybe it really isn't PCOS, but the other thing, which then wouldn't per se be related to insulin resistance. Also, your doc should have ordered an EXTENDED OGTT, as a short one is basically a waste of time, which very few docs seem to know. Can you fund a Libre (CGM) for a week, do a OGTT at home and show them the results? Just an idea. You saying you're hypo doesn't make much of an impression as you're "probably just a hysterical female". Slapping them over the head with some carefully recorded numbers that prove you 100% right might have more of an effect. Stick with the low carbing for the RH. I didn't find out the way I'd been feeling on occasion had been RH until that was already in my rearview mirror. If you keep spiking insulin, as RH is an overshoot, you might in time become insensitive to your own insulin. Looking back, I think that's what happened to me. Between that and PCOS, T2 running in the family and whatnot, I didn't have a prayer when no-one bothered to tell me I was prediabetic. (Then at least I would've known what to research and would have found out about low carb instead of low fat, and would've avoided the whole T2 thing!). All in all.... Listen to your gut. Not a doc who basically laughs at you. It's no laughing matter, it's your body and you're kind of stuck having to live in it. They don't have that luxury. Good luck! Jo [/QUOTE]
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